Ben Stiller

Robert De Niro

Teri Polo

Blythe Danner

Nicole DeHuff

Jon Abrahams

Owen Wilson

James Rebhorn

Tom McCarthy

Phyllis George

Kali Rocha

Bernie Sheredy

Judah Friedlander

Peter Bartlett

John Elsen

Mark Hammer

Amy Hohn

William Severs

John Fiore

Marilyn Dobrin

Marci Reid

Frank Santorelli

Russell Hornsby

Patricia Cook

Cody Arens

Cole Hawkins

Spencer Breslin

Ina Rosenthal

Kim Rideout

Kresh Novakovic

John Joseph Gallagher

G. A. Aguilar

Lynn Ann Castle

Peter James

Rusty Smith

Jim Herzfeld

Ellen Chenoweth

Greg Hayden

John Hamburg

Karin Wiesel

Jon Poll

John Kasarda

Jay Roach

Daniel Orlandi

Kim Drummond

Valentina Aulisi

Peter Epstein

Nancy Tenenbaum

Randy Newman

Shauna Robertson

Greg Glienna

Jane Rosenthal

Amy Sayres

Jim Vincent

Mary Ruth Clarke

Ron Michaels

Emo Philips

Ken Nelson

Amy Safhay

Hyun-joo Kim

Brett Botula

Alyson Wellins

Steven E. Lawler

Lenny Vullo

Dennis Drummond

William Riley

Jeff Flach

Bruno Coon

Tom Prate

Rocco Curatolo

Orin Faison

James Morioka

Tommy Allen

William MacGhee

Tod A. Maitland

David D. Johnson

Solange Monnier

Bill Anagnos

Phillip V. Caruso

John Glaser

Victor DeNicola

Julie Arenal

Lisa Rodgers

Dennis McNeill

Kevin Du Toit

Cynthia Bauer

Michal Bigger

Curtis Croeni

Richard Cowan

Bill Almeida

Steven Blaho

Randall Poster

Eva Z. Cabrera

Julie Kuehndorf

Daniel Geary

Edmund Nardone

Joe DeAngelis

J.C. Brotherhood

Joseph Barry

Frank Graziadei

Bobby Mancuso

Morris Flam

Susie Farris

George H. Anderson

Maurice Fitzgerald

Kate Kelly

John Quaglia

Edward O'Donnell

Clay Liversidge

Don Davis

Jonathan Klein

Jeffrey Rollins

David Davenport

Jeanette Browning

Steve Ginsburg

Amy Lauritsen

Jennifer Truelove

Marco Schnabel

Juliet D'Annibale

Grant Wilfley

David Boulton

Caesar S. Carnevale

Mark Cross

Susan Silas

Kenny Burke

Gary Burritt

Ron Mellegers

Carey DePalma

Goro Koyama

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**_A serious beau becomes a master of disaster when he meets his girlfriend's parents_**

A male nurse from Chicago (Ben Stiller) wants to pop the question to his girlfriend (Teri Polo), but first has to visit Long Island and meet the parents (Robert De Niro & Blythe Danner).

“Meet the Parents” (2001) is a good romantic comedy with Stiller effective as the every-man in a challenging mundane situation that most guys can relate to. The first half involves droll humor as Greg awkwardly meets his potential parents-in-law and suspects that the father doesn’t like him. Yet this is just a set-up for the wild mishaps of the second half as Murphy’s Law goes into effect.

Teri looks great while Nicole DeHuff is on hand as the sister. Elsewhere, an iconic actor of the period shows up in the second half, but I don’t want to give it away as it’s a welcome surprise (it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out seeing as how this is a Ben Stiller comedy).

The sequel “Meet the Fockers” came out four years later and it’s lousy by comparison with distasteful non-humor consisting mostly of juvenile jokes about sex from senior citizens. It was an embarrassment to the iconic actors.

The movie runs 1 hour, 48 minutes, and was shot mostly on Long Island at Old Brookville and nearby Oyster Bay.

GRADE: B+

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The time has come for "Greg" (Ben Stiller) to meet the parents of his girlfriend "Pam" (Teri Polo). He wants to marry her, indeed he even buys a ring - but when the airline makes him check in his bag, then lose the thing and a baby throws up over his shirt he might be forgiven for thinking he'd be better of staying at home. Nope, he perseveres and meets her folks - "Jack" (Robert De Niro) and "Dina" (Blythe Danner) and now his troubles really do begin. Rather than just the usual charming family repartee, "Greg" finds himself under a microscope of penetrative inquisition from his would-be in-law, and it gradually emerges that he has maybe held back on a few truths with "Pam" and he does (or doesn't) like cats. He's also a male nurse called "Focker" - further facts which don't really helps his cause, either. As the weekend progresses, "Greg" lurches from the frying pan to the fire, trashes a sentimental urn, get's stitched up by her brother "Denny" (Jon Abrahams) and I think if it'd been me, I'd have abandoned ship however much I might have loved the woman. Danner always manages to impose herself gently in comedy, her facial expressions and demeanour adding an approving or disapproving look that speaks volumes, and here she works well with De Niro whose controlling behaviour is really the source of much of the humour here. It's not laugh out loud funny, and there's far too much dialogue, but when De Niro is at his most controllingly mischievous, then this is worth a watch. Who doesn't like a bit of Peter, Paul & Mary too?

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Written by Wuchak on Mon May 29 2023

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